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| Alan Rosling |
| Executive Director | Tata Sons |
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Alan Rosling is an executive director of Tata Sons. He is a member of the Tata Group Corporate Centre and is responsible for the Group's drive to internationalise. He is also a director of Tata AutoComp Systems and Tata International.
From 1998 to 2003, he was chairman of the Jardine Matheson Group in India. Before joining Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong, Mr Rosling was with United Distillers plc where he was strategy development director. He was also managing director of Concorde Motors, a joint venture between Jardine Motors and the Tata Group, prior to the sale of the Jardine stake to the Tatas in 2002. Between 1991-93, Mr Rosling was special advisor to the British Prime Minister, John Major, and a member of the policy unit at No 10 Downing Street. Prior to that, he was chief executive of Piersons, a division of Courtaulds Textiles plc. Mr Rosling started his career in 1983 as an investment banker with S G Warburg & Co Ltd.
Mr Rosling is currently the chairman of the British Business Group, Mumbai, and the chairman of the City of London Advisory Board for India. He also chairs The Bombay Chamber of Commerce's Indo-British Business Committee.
Mr Rosling was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, where he took a first in History. He was awarded a Harkness Fellowship in 1986 to go to the Harvard Business School, from which he graduated as a Baker Scholar. He was made an OBE in 1994 |
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| Carl Stjernfeldt |
| General Partner, Castile Ventures |
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Carl Stjernfeldt has an investment focus on wired and wireless communications technologies and services. He also has a strong interest in the intersection of content mobility, transport, and trust. Prior to Castile, Mr. Stjernfeldt was a partner at Battery Ventures where he spent seven years investing in leading IT companies. Currently he serves on the board of PermissionTV, and has also served on the boards of Arbor Networks, Agito Networks, Broadbus Technologies (acquired by Motorola), Cedar Point Communications, and Tejas Networks, and was a board observer of Optium (NASDAQ: OPTM).
Prior to Battery Ventures, Mr. Stjernfeldt worked for Cambridge Technology Partners as a client partner and project manager. At Summa Four he developed telecommunications solutions for domestic and international service providers.
Mr. Stjernfeldt holds a dual MS in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm and Northeastern University in Boston, and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, where he now teaches a course in entrepreneurial finance.
Mr. Stjernfeldt serves as a Catalyst for the Deshpande Center at MIT, is on the University of Michigan's Technology Transfer National Advisory Board, and serves on the Board of the New England Venture Capital Association. |
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| Ramana Nanda |
| Asst. Prof of Business Administration, Harvard Business School |
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Ramana Nanda is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He currently teaches Entrepreneurial Management in the first year of the MBA program. Ramana's research is focused on understanding regional variation in entrepreneurship and productivity growth. To do so, he has examined how capital markets impact the founding, growth and strategic direction of new ventures. In addition, he has examined some of the micro-mechanisms through which industrial clusters promote entrepreneurship by looking at both peer-effects in the workplace and cross-border diaspora networks.
Ramana received his Ph.D. from MIT's Sloan School of Management and has a BA and MA in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K. He is a recipient of the 2006 Kauffman Foundation's dissertation fellowship award and the 2004 GBI-Stern Aspen Foundation grant for his thesis research.
Prior to starting his Ph.D., Ramana was based in the London and New York offices of Oliver, Wyman & Company, where he worked primarily with clients in global capital markets as well as in retail and small-business banking. He has also advised startup ventures on their financing strategies, including MIT-based startups in the medical device and clean-energy sectors. |
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| Desh Deshpande |
| Tejas Networks |
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Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande is co-founder and chairman of Sycamore Networks, Inc. Dr. Deshpande serves as a member of the MIT Corporation, and his generous donations have made possible MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation. The Deshpande Center was created to serve as a catalyst for innovation and entrepreneurship by supporting research and collaboration among entrepreneurs, young companies, and MIT students, alumni, and faculty.
Prior to co-founding Sycamore Networks, Dr. Deshpande was founder and chairman of Cascade Communications Corp. Between 1991 and 1997; Cascade grew from a one-person startup to a company with $500 million in revenue and 900 employees. In June of 1997, Cascade was acquired by Ascend Communications for $3.7 billion. Prior to Cascade, Dr. Deshpande co-founded Coral Network Corporation in 1988. Previously, he served in various management positions for Codex Corporation, a subsidiary of Motorola. Before joining Codex, Dr. Deshpande taught at Queens University in Kingston, Canada.
Dr. Deshpande holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, an M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and a Ph.D. in Data Communications from Queens University in Canada. Dr. Deshpande is the founding investor and Board Member of Webdialogs, Tejas Networks, Airvana and A123 Systems. |
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| Bob Compton |
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Bob Compton epitomizes the term 'Renaissance Man.' His track record of success and his passion for new ventures are unyielding. A Harvard Business School graduate with an honorary Doctorate from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Compton has spent most of his career as a professional venture capital investor specializing in start-up technology companies, primarily medical tech and software. He has served on the boards of over a dozen non-profit organizations, including as a Trustee of the Kauffman Foundation, a $1.8 billion foundation dedicated to accelerating entrepreneurship.
Some of Compton's investments include Software Artistry, Aprimo, Exact Target, Interactive Intelligence, Vontoo, IndianMathOnline, Compendium Blogware, Compression Engineering, Mezzia, Sci-Tech Ventures, Veregon and Warsaw Orthopedic (which went on to become Sofamor Danek).
Compton's latest endeavors include global traveler, author, record producer, photographer and film-maker. Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination is his first documentary film which was released this year. The film follows 2 high school seniors in India, China and the U.S. to compare and contrast the high school experiences in each country. How kids spend their time during high school - approximately 4 years, or two million minutes - in each culture is radically different and has profound implications for America's economy in the decades ahead. |
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| Craig Newmark |
| Founder, Craigslist |
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A web-oriented software engineer by training, with 30 years of IT experience at companies such as IBM and Bank of America, Craig now spends his days working as a customer service rep at craigslist.
In 1995 while Craig was working at Schwab, he started craigslist as an email list for friends and co-workers about events going on in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1999, Craig retired from IT consulting to work full-time on craigslist. What started as a fun side project in Craig's living room has since grown into one of the busiest sites on the internet, helping people with basic day-to-day needs such as finding a job, an apartment and a date, all within a culture of trust.
Craig continues to embrace his inner nerd though he no longer wears thick black glasses that are held together with tape, and he retired the plastic pocket protector some years ago.
Craig is involved with a variety of community efforts and is particularly interested in organizations promoting public diplomacy, mideast peace and new forms of media such as participatory journalism. He's on the boards of Sunlight Foundation, OneVoice, FactCheckED, Consumer Union and VotoLatino.
Craig graduated from Case Western University. |
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| Ajit Mahadevan |
| Partner, Business Advisory Services, Ernst & Young |
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Ajit currently heads the formulations custom manufacturing business of Nicholas Piramal India (one of India's largest pharma companies). He has been with Nicholas Piramal for the past 6 years and been responsible for setting up the global custom manufacturing business for NPIL. One of his key roles has been in driving M&A (cross-border) - including NPIL's acquisitions in the UK and North America. The role has involved due diligence, transaction as well as post-merger integration.
Prior to working at NPIL, Ajit was a Strategy consultant at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) for almost 7 years. He worked on various assignments across both the Mumbai and London offices.
Ajit has an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business as well as a Computer Science undergraduate degree from India.
Ajit frequently writes as well as is quoted by pharma journals in India and internationally. |
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| Vipin Garg |
| President and CEO, Tranzyme Pharmaceuticals |
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Dr. Garg has over 20 years of biotechnology industry experience in both technical and management positions. Under his leadership, Tranzyme has raised more than $50M in venture capital and has advanced two products into clinical development. Prior to joining Tranzyme Pharma, he was COO of Apex Bioscience (now Curacyte AG of Munich, Germany), and held senior management positions at DNX Therapeutics [NASDAQ: DNXX], Sepracor Inc. [NASDAQ: SEPR] and Bio-Response Inc. (acquired by Baxter). During his career, Dr. Garg has been involved in several financings and liquidity events, including, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions. He has managed operations in US, Europe and Canada.
Dr. Garg received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1982 from the University of Adelaide, Australia, and his M.S. from New Delhi, India. He was a member of the US Presidential Mission to India led by President Bill Clinton in March, 2000, and serves on the board of North Carolina Biotechnology Center. |
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| Rusty Ray |
| Partner: Brocair Partners LLC |
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Prior to Brocair Partners, Mr. Ray was with Resources for the Future (RFF) a non-partisan Washington-based think tank that conducts independent research - rooted primarily in economics. During his tenure at RFF, the organization conducted a number of studies related to the pharmaceutical industry. As a result, Mr. Ray worked with a variety of key players within the space, including but not limited to Pfizer, Merck, Novartis, Aventis, Johnson & Johnson, Warner-Lambert, and SmithKline Beecham. Beyond public policy issues affecting the healthcare market, Mr. Ray also worked on issues related to emissions credit trading, utility restructuring, energy, and benefit-cost analysis of environmental quality. Prior to joining RFF, Mr. Ray worked with The Meningitis Research Foundation in London where he worked to support research to cure the disease. Mr. Ray serves as a Director for the New Media Mill. Mr. Ray holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Fordham University, and received a B.S. in Biology from Wake Forest University. Mr. Ray currently resides in New York, NY. |
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| Bruce Raphael |
| Partner, Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge |
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Bruce focuses his practice in corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, and represents public and private buyers and sellers. He works with clients involved in a variety of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, gaming, life sciences, manufacturing and technology, often in cross-border transactions. Bruce is the co-chair of our Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group. He is also the chair of our Banking Practice Group and is listed by Chambers USA as one of the leading banking and finance lawyers in Massachusetts. |
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| Michael Greeley |
| General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners |
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Michael founded IDG Ventures Atlantic in 2001 before it transitioned to Flybridge Capital Partners in 2008. Michael continues to serve on the board of International Data Group, the flagship Limited Partner for the IDG Ventures global network of funds. Previously, Michael was with Polaris Venture Partners, where he focused on both early-stage and later-stage financings for emerging growth companies. Before Polaris, Michael served as Senior Vice President and Founding Partner of GCC Investments, a $200 million private equity fund. Prior to GCC Investments, Michael was a Vice President and one of the early professionals at Wasserstein Perella & Co., an international merchant bank with a $1.0 billion private equity fund. Additionally, Michael was a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Department of Morgan Stanley & Co. and worked in the Leveraged Buyout Group of Credit Suisse First Boston. In previous positions, Michael has served on the Boards of a number of public and private companies including Global TeleSystems Group (NASDAQ: GTSG), El Sitio International (NASDAQ: LCTO), MotherNature.com (NASDAQ: MTHR), Crescent Communications (acquired by Clear Channel), Fleetcor Technologies and American Capital Access. |
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| Matthew Holt |
| Author of "The Healthcare Blog", Founder "Health 2.0" |
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In more than 1 5 years in health care as a researcher, generalist forecaster, and strategist, Matthew has worked for renowned forecasting and survey research organizations, conducted several ground-breaking in-depth studies about many aspects of health care, and delivered several keynote addresses. As Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at i-Beacon, a data analysis and Internet tools provider, which helped healthcare companies better understand consumers.
He is the author of The Health Care Blog, and one of the organizers of the Health 2.0 Conference. |
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| James Heywood |
| Co-founder and Chairman, Patients Like Me |
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James Allen Heywood is the Chairman and co-founder of Patients Like Me the worlds leading patient information website with in depth information on treatments, symptoms, and real world information on managing life changing diseases.
James is also the founder of ALS TDI, the world's first non-profit biotechnology company, with a vision to dramatically accelerate ALS research. ALS TDI broke new ground on many fronts and has become widely recognized as one of the most promising and innovative research organizations. Under Jamie's leadership, ALS TDI implemented an industrialized therapeutic validation process and built one of the world's leading ALS drug discovery programs and was the first organization to run an open research program, posting in real time the results of its studies for patients, doctors, and the research community.
An MIT Engineer, he is an active investor and advisor to startups and companies and non profits working improve the way in which biomedical research is conducted. Jamie's work has been profiled in the New Yorker, 60 Minutes, Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Wiener's book, His Brothers Keeper, and in the Sundance award winning documentary So Much So Fast. |
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| Daniel Palestrant |
| CEO, Sermo |
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Daniel Palestrant is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge-based Sermo, Inc. Daniel is responsible for the overall vision of the Sermo community and business. His main tasks focus on ensuring that Sermo is a valuable resource to physicians while building a profitable and socially responsible enterprise. Daniel's first experiences with Healthcare Informatics came when he conceived, designed, proposed and managed deployment of CIBUR (CIGNA Internet Based Universal Resource), one of the first commercial Web-based healthcare resources for physicians and allied health professionals. Daniel founded his first company, Azygos, Inc., in 1998 which he successfully raised $2.2MM in funding and deployed the company's first clinical application on schedule and on budget, before selling the company to BioNetrix in May of 2001. After selling Azygos, Daniel joined BioNetrix (Now BNX Systems) as Director of Health Care. During his time at BNX Systems, Daniel helped numerous healthcare-focused businesses increase network security, improve patient privacy safeguards and comply with HIPAA. Daniel has done clinical and laboratory research in transplant immunology. He has a B.S. in biology from Johns Hopkins University, completed medical school at Duke University, and trained in General Surgery at Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital, in Boston before leaving to launch Sermo. |
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| Jason Bobe |
| Personal Genome Project (Harvard Medical School), Director of Community |
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Jason is currently the Director of Community for the Personal Genome Project based out of George Church's lab at Harvard Medical School.
He is interested in how new technologies and the web are redefining the relationships between scientific research communities, communities from the general public, and the network of actors in-between. More generally, he pursues projects involving the entrepreneurship of ideas around emerging technologies with rich informational components and significant social and personal impacts.
He has degrees in molecular biology and information systems. Before joining the Personal Genome Project, he was a consultant for OpenWetWare based out of MIT and was the director of business development at DNA Direct, a genetic counseling start-up in San Francisco. |
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| Eric Poon |
| Director of Clinical Informatics, Brigham and Women's Hospital |
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Eric Poon is the IS Director of Clinical Informatics and Senior Corporate Manager for Clinical Information systems at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also a practicing internist at the Brigham Internal Medicine Associates at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Dr. Poon's professional activities have revolved around the use of health information technology to improve the quality of care and patient safety in both the ambulatory and hospital settings. In his present role as the Director of Clinical Informatics as BWH, he oversees the development, implementation, and support of inpatient clinical applications, including CPOE, barcode-assisted electronic medication administration record, acute care documentation, and patient tracking applications. His work in the ambulatory setting has focused on the design and implementation of decision support and workflow tools to improve the quality of care and patient safety, and to measure the impact of these tools. Areas of research interest include the efficient delivery of decision support to clinicians to prevent errors of omission and commission during diagnostic test ordering and review of test results, delivery of patient-centric decision support through a secure on-line patient portal, barriers to and facilitators of CPOE implementation, and measuring the impact of barcode technology in the hospital pharmacy and nursing units.
Dr. Poon received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, his MD from Harvard Medical School, and his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his residency in internal medicine and his fellowship in general internal medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
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| Anita Goel |
| Founder, Nanobiosym |
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Dr. Anita Goel, MD, PhD founded Nanobiosym®, Inc in 2004 as an R&D engine that focuses on emerging technologies at the convergence of Physics, Medicine, and Nanotechnology. Dr. Goel's pioneering contributions to this interface over the past 15 years have been recognized globally by several prestigious honors and awards. Her work on establishing the feasibility of the Gene-RADAR® technology platform at Nanobiosym® has been recognized by multiple rounds of funding from the United States Department of Defense agencies including Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and US Dept of Energy (DOE) and US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).
After successfully demonstrating proof-of-concept, Dr. Goel established Nanobiosym® Diagnostics to commercialize nano-enabled portable diagnostic capabilities. Dr. Goel has built a world class team of advisors, sponsors, and strategic collaborators to realize the full potential for Gene-RADAR® in both developed and emerging world markets.
A Harvard-MIT trained physicist and physician, Dr. Goel was named in 2005 as one of the world's "Top 35 science and technology innovators under the age of 35" by MIT's Technology Review Magazine and in 2006 received the Global Indus Technovator Award from MIT, an honor recognizing the contributions of top 10 leaders working at the forefront of science, technology, and entrepreneurship.
Dr. Goel holds both a PhD in Physics from Harvard University and an MD from the Harvard-MIT Joint Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and BS in Physics with Honors & Distinction from Stanford University. She is a Fellow of the World Technology Network, a Fellow-at-Large of the Santa Fe Institute, and an Associate of the Harvard Physics Department and Adjunct Professor of the BEYOND Institute for Fundamental Concepts in Science. |
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| Utkarsh Rai |
| Author of Offshoring Secrets and Managing Director, Infinera India |
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Utkarsh Rai, Managing Director, Infinera, started his career in the late eighties as one of the first few batches of IT professionals who joined Siemens in India and went on to work in Siemens Germany for a stint. The team returned to form a spin-off called Siemens Information Systems in India, an IT company.
Utkarsh moved on to work with Adaptec in Silicon Valley, where he was involved in a full-blown product development lifecycle. In the boom period of the late nineties, when Indians flooded the U.S. in search of IT jobs, he could see India-and Bangalore, specifically-being a center for product development. He flew against the winds of the time and joined the Global Software Group at Motorola in Bangalore. This experience prepared him for his current role as the head of India operations for Infinera-a startup in digital optical networking-a position that he took in early 2003. Infinera went IPO in June 2007.
All these experiences triggered Utkarsh to write a book "Offshoring Secrets: Building and Running a successful India operation", which was released in the US last year. The foreword is written by Mr. Vinod Khosla. He is a charter member of TIE, Bangalore. Utkarsh lives in Bangalore and his email is utkarshrai@yahoo.com. |
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| Venkat Srinivasan |
| CEO, Rage Frameworks, Inc |
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Dr. Venkat Srinivasan is currently the founding CEO of Rage Frameworks, Inc., which is a business accelerator, enabling the creation of highly capital and process efficient businesses. With its platform, Rage is incubating capital and process efficient businesses, investing its technology in startups and developing flexible business process automation centers for Corporations. Rage has successfully incubated 3 businesses so far and plans to expand the implementation of its business model in 2007. Between 1992 and 2000, Venkat was the founding CEO of eCredit.com, the leading provider of credit, financing and receivables management technology solutions for the business enterprise. |
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| Indu Isaacs |
| CEO and Co-Founder, Formatech |
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Indu J. Isaacs, Ph.D., CEO and Co-founder of Formatech, has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Oklahoma. Prior to Formatech, Dr. Isaacs, has held both scientific and management positions at Genetics Institute in Andover, Abbott Biotech in Needham, and Cambridge Neurosciences in Cambridge.
Formatech, Inc., a 11 year old Massachusetts Corp, is focused on providing quality contract services to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Through innovative product development and quality CGMP aseptic manufacturing capabilities, Formatech strives to assist in bringing new and novel therapies to the market. Formatech commits itself to the highest standards of integrity, service and customer commitment to its clients and its employees.
Formatech, Inc. began its operations originally in Lowell in the Wannalancit Building, a renovated old mill. Company grew steadily from its initial 1,500 sqft of lab space to 8,500 in 1999. In 2000, the company relocated to Andover Business Park in Andover where it currently occupies 35,000 sqft and employs a staff of 55. Since its inception, the Company has maintained an aggressive marketing and business development program and serves clients in the United States, Japan, Israel, Australia, Europe and Canada. |
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| Firdaus Bhathena |
| Founder, President and CEO, Relicore |
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Firdaus brings to Relicore extensive entrepreneurial and senior management experience from three prior technology companies. He co-founded WebLine Communications in 1996 after winning the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. As Vice President of Products at WebLine, Firdaus drove the product marketing and engineering efforts that resulted in WebLine becoming the widely acknowledged leader in distributed solutions for Web-based customer interaction. The company grew to over 150 employees servicing the needs of more than 100 large customers in the technology, financial services, retail, and outsourcing segments, culminating in its acquisition by Cisco Systems in November 1999.
Prior to founding WebLine, Firdaus was Vice President of Research and Development at Kurzweil Educational Systems, a developer of educational software products. Prior to Kurzweil, he spent several years as Director of Engineering at a software startup out of MIT building products that integrate real-time control and information technology for manufacturing environments. Firdaus has been awarded five patents for his work in software and distributed systems.
Firdaus earned his BS and MS degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was a Tau Beta Pi Graduate Fellow and qualified for the PhD program at MIT. Firdaus received the Henry Ford II scholarship for exceptional potential for leadership in technology ventures. |
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| Radha Jalan |
| CEO, Electrochem |
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Dr. Radha Jalan is the President and CEO of ElectroChem, Inc. located in Woburn, MA. ElectroChem is a leading company in the fuel cell industry, cultivating a technology that provides power by converting hydrogen and oxygen into electricity.
Along with her work at ElectroChem, she serves and has been the chairperson of a number of non-profit community and educational organizations. Dr. Jalan has been a champion of minority and women's issues. Over the years, Dr. Jalan has been a Board Member of SBANE (Smaller Business Association of New England) and Mass Energy. She was cited as "Woman to Watch" in 2002 by Women's Business magazine, and received the Massachusetts High Tech All-Stars Award for her work in Advanced Energy. Currently, Dr. Jalan is a board member of the Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition, a trustee for the Nashoba Brooks School of Concord, and an advisory committee member for the Commonwealth Institute and AASRA. |
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| Murali Aravamudan |
| Founder and CEO, Veveo, Inc |
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Murali Aravamudan is a pioneer and experienced leader in the fields of data networking, telephony, multimedia and broadband technologies. His vast experience in these fields has fostered a culture of innovation at Veveo, Inc. which promises to help define the next generation of the mobile web. In 2003, Mr. Aravamudan spearheaded the successful acquisition of his company Winphoria Networks by Motorola.
Mr.Aravamudan founded Winphoria Networks in March of 2000, helping to create the groundbreaking Mobile Wireless SoftSwitch and Instant Communications applications for CDMA and GSM networks. When Winphoria was acquired by Motorola in May, 2003, Mr. Aravamudan served as the vice president and general manager of the Winphoria Division of Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions Sector.
Prior to founding Winphoria, Mr. Aravamudan served as vice president and chief technology officer of the Communications Software Business at Lucent Technologies and as a department head of Communications Software Research at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill. In addition, Mr. Aravamudan founded and served as president of Isochrone Inc., an internet multimedia software company. He was also the principal architect of AT&T's Internet Enhanced Technology Services.
Mr. Aravamudan has authored 31 US patents, with an additional 25 patent applications pending in data networking, telephony, database, and multimedia technologies. |
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| Jason Ader |
| Managing Director, Thomas Weisel Partners LLC |
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Jason Ader follows the Communications Equipment industry at Thomas Weisel Partners, with a focus on IP Networking. Jason has been a sell-side analyst tracking the communications industry for almost 10 years, having held previous positions at regional firms H.C. Wainwright and Advest. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Duke University in 1992 and his Master’s degree from The Fletcher School at Tufts University with a specialty in International Information and Communication. ` |
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| Julio Quinteros |
| Goldman Sachs, Vice President |
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Julio C. Quinteros, Jr., Vice President works in the Technology Group covering both large cap and small cap IT Services companies, with an emphasis on US-based outsourcers and systems integrators, and India-based offshore service providers. Julio joined Goldman Sachs in August 1998 from Credit Suisse First Boston where he was an Associate covering the electronic banking and computer services industry. Previously, he worked at EDS in a market analysis and strategic planning capacity supporting the financial industry strategic business unit. Julio has a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California. |
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| Stuart Randle |
| President and CEO, GI Dynamics |
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Prior to joining GI Dynamics, Stuart was an Entrepreneur In Residence at Advanced Technology Ventures. Prior to ATV, he was the president and CEO at ACT Medical, Inc., where he was responsible for developing and executing a new strategy that resulted in the sale of the company to MedSource Technologies, Inc. in 2001. Stuart went to ACT Medical from Allegiance Healthcare Corporation, where he was a corporate officer and helped plan and execute the spin-off from Baxter International. Previously, he spent 10 years with Baxter in various senior management positions and was responsible for launching the world's first needle-less IV system. Stuart earned an MBA from The Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. |
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| Nailesh A. Bhatt |
| Founder and Managing Director, Proximare Inc. |
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Nailesh A. Bhatt is the founder and Managing Director of Proximare Inc. - a leading advisory firm that exclusively serves the pharmaceutical and related industries by working with senior executives to develop and implement growth strategies for R&D, licensing, marketing, manufacturing, technology, joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions and outsourcing as well as off-shoring.
Prior to Proximare, Nailesh founded pharmaceutical industry’s first B2B e-marketplace called BulkDrugs.com, with offices in the US, India and Japan. Before that, Mr. Bhatt worked for Arthur Andersen, Seppic SA in increasing roles and responsibility. Nailesh is the recipient of several awards including NJBiz Magazine’s “40 Most Successful Businesspersons under the Age of 40” in 2004.
Mr. Bhatt is a frequent speaker and author on the subjects of pharmaceutical strategy including outsourcing, off-shoring, marketing and business development and India. He is on the editorial advisory board of “Pharma & Bio Ingredients” and has presented to the World Economic Forum, Federal Trade Commission, DCAT, DDT and many other leading industry events. A graduate of Boston University with degrees in Economics and Biology, Mr. Bhatt splits his time between India and the United States. |
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| Santhana Krishnan |
| Chairman and CEO, InteQ Corporation |
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Santhana is the Chairman and CEO, and Co-Founder of InteQ Corporation. Santhana brings a successful 17-year career and is responsible for the vision, strategy and leadership and has led the company from its founding to its present position as an industry leader in remote managed services for enterprises worldwide. Santhana was selected by the Boston Business Journal as one of the area's top "40 under 40" technology executives.
Previously at HP's Professional Services Organization, Santhana developed HP's Northeast Enterprise Messaging Practice, where he architected Internet infrastructures for several Fortune 500 clients. Prior to joining HP, Santhana was a senior consultant with IBM's Application Business Systems Division. Santhana holds two Master's degrees in Information Systems from Bentley College, and Industrial Engineering from Kansas State University. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kerala in India.
Outside the office, Santhana serves on the board of the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council and makes time to encourage other entrepreneurs and was the Chairman of Communications for The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). |
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| Nabeel Hyatt |
| Founder, Conduit Labs |
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Nabeel Hyatt is the founder and CEO of Conduit Labs, a stealth mode startup building a new real-time social entertainment network. The company was founded by a combination of web entrepreneurs and MMO gaming pioneers; who previously helped create Guitar Hero, Lord of the Rings Online and the award-winning company, Ambient Devices. Previously, Nabeel was with Ambient Devices, an MIT Media Lab spin-off creating a new category of consumer electronics and named one of the "Ideas of the Year" by the NY Times in 2003. Prior to that Nabeel was COO of new media sports company Teamtalk, which IPO'd in 2001, and co-founder of internetsoccer.com in the go-go 90s. He has been quoted in Newsweek, The Economist, Business 2.0, and has been a featured speaker at CES, GDC, and the Virtual Goods Summit. His blog is at http://nabeel.typepad.com |
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| Vik Mehrotra |
| Founder and CEO, Venus Capital |
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Vik Mehrotra is the founder and CEO of Venus Capital Management, Inc., a registered investment adviser with SEC in USA. Venus Capital was founded in 1994, after Mr. Mehrotra left Paine Webber, where he worked for three years. Venus Capital manages over $300M, in Asia dedicated strategies and is focused on getting the best risk adjusted returns from Asia, for its investors, which are mostly US and European fund of funds, pension funds, endowments & foundations and family offices.
Mr. Mehrotra has a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Rochester Institute of Technology, with specialization in finance and investment management and further focus on derivatives and international trading. He has an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Economics from University of Delhi in India. |
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| P S Saminathan |
| Chairman, Pyramid Saimira Group |
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Mr. P.S. Saminathan is a Promoter Chairman of Pyramid Saimira Group comprises of 14 companies. Under his leadership, Pyramid Saimira has become the world's fastest growing entertainment Group with diversified business interests in Exhibition (Theatre), Film and Television Content Production, Distribution, Hospitality, Food & Beverage, Cine Advertising, Radio, Gaming & Animation and Realty, operating in 6 countries - India, Malaysia, Singapore, the USA, UK and CHINA.
He started his career as an aquaculture economist and became a venture capitalist and has over two decades of professional experience and domain expertise in techno-commercial ventures. This includes stints in an Investment Company heading the Finance function, a private equity fund, cable Television business and a consultancy organization in the field of bioscience. He promoted Saimira Access Technologies, which introduced the concept of digital cable at a very early stage. Mr. Saminathan is a seasoned professional with strong business acumen and a passion to build an innovative and successful business model.
His vast and varied experience and expertise in the field of Communication including Television, Multimedia and Networking has made him a strategic thinker and a visionary in the field of Entertainment and Convergence. The business model of the Pyramid Saimira Group is his brainchild.
He is an active Member of several Film Industry Forums and is often invited to participate as a thought leader in Conferences and Seminars.
A Cost Accountant by profession, he holds a degree in Commerce from Loyola College, University of Madras.
Pyramid Saimira Group owns FunAsiA, that runs the largest chain of bollywood theaters in North America. FunAsiA runs a 24 x 7 radio station in Dallas, that is simulcast to other cities as well as streamed through internet. FunAsiA's Desipages, is a premier bollywood / lifestyle magazine available currently in Dallas, Houston and Chicago markets and soon to be available all across North America. FunAsiA is a one stop place for entertainment and media to reach out to the affluent South Asian community. |
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| David Carter |
| CIO & VP, Commercial Markets IT, Liberty Mutual |
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David provides the overall technology direction of Awareness and consults with our customers to align their internet strategy with their corporate objectives.
David founded WebPartz Inc. which was acquired by Awareness in March of 2003. Prior to forming WebPartz, he spent 11 years at Microsoft where he had held various positions including Manager of Internet Strategy, Marketing Manager Knowledge Management, Content Management, and eCommerce products. In each of these roles he worked closely with large corporations rolling out the Microsoft platform and developing a business strategy. His last role was as Internet Strategy Manager where he oversaw sections of microsoft.com and Microsoft Canada's Intranet.
If there has been a common thread in his roles in the last 10 years it's been driving "participation" on the internet. "Content comes from people. People need to be able to participate easily in order to make the best most relevant content available.", says Carter |
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| Matt Eichner |
| VP, Marketing, Endeca |
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Matt spearheads Endeca's global marketing and business development organizations. His current responsibilities include the sales and technical elements of Endeca's emerging solutions, managing partnerships, channel strategy, as well as the company's core product marketing, strategy, and messaging. Prior to Endeca, Matt directed elements of a corporate-wide restructuring at Net2Phone while managing a product division. He also co-founded software startup iKena (acquired by Net2Phone) and previously consulted on technology merger and acquisition strategy while at Broadview (now part of Jefferies Securities).
Matt holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. |
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| Mark Cressey |
| CIO & VP, Commercial Markets IT, Liberty Mutual |
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Mark Cressey is the Vice President and CIO of the Commercial Markets IT area within Information Systems at Liberty Mutual. Appointed to this position in October 2006, Mr. Cressey's group supports a wide range of applications that are used in Liberty Mutual's domestic business insurance operations.
Mr.Cressey's organization provides application support and development services with over 400 employees located in Exeter, NH, Wausau, WI and Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Prior to taking his current role, Mr.Cressey was the Vice President and CIO for the Corporate Center Applications at Liberty Mutual.
Mr. Cressey holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Maine.
Liberty Mutual is a Fortune 100 company with over $23 billion in revenue in 2007 and the 6th largest Property Casualty insurer in the United States. |
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| Brian Balfour |
| Founder, Viximo |
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Brian Balfour is a serial internet entrepreneur and active member of the Boston tech community. Brian is currently founder of his fourth startup, Viximo, a company focused on the emerging virtual goods industry. Viximo is funded by North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. Brian was a founding member of Betahouse, a co-working space for tech entrepreneurs located in Cambridge. Brian is also an organizer of POPSignal, a popular quarterly event for the Boston startup community. Brian specializes in creating, growing, and monetizing online communities. You can read more about Brian on his blog at http://www.SocialDegree.com |
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| John Santini |
| President & CEO, MicroCHIPS, Inc. |
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John Santini is an entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in drug delivery and biosensing. Under his leadership, MicroCHIPS has attracted top tier venture capital and corporate investors, demonstrated the first long-term implantable drug delivery microchip, and is developing a long-term implantable glucose sensor for diabetes management based on its proprietary reservoir array technology. He is a recognized expert in the application of microtechnology in healthcare and has over 60 issued/pending patents. Dr. Santini was honored as one of the Top 100 Young Innovators in the world by Technology Review Magazine. He obtained his PhD in chemical engineering from MIT with Professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima as a National Science Foundation Fellow, and his BSE in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. |
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| Jonathan Fleming |
| Managing General Partner, Oxford Bioscience Partners |
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Jonathan Fleming is the Managing General Partner of Oxford Bioscience Partners, an international venture capital firm specializing in life science technology based investments, with offices in Boston and Connecticut.
Mr. Fleming has been in the investment business for over twenty years, starting and financing growth companies in the United States, Europe, and Israel. Prior to joining OBP in 1996, he was a Founding General Partner of MVP Ventures in Boston, MA. He began his investment career with TVM Techno Venture Management in Munich, Germany. Mr. Fleming has also co-founded Medica Venture Partners, a venture capital investment firm specializing in early stage healthcare and biotechnology companies in Israel. Mr. Fleming holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mr. Fleming is a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Memory Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: MEMY). He is also Chairman of the Board of BioProcessors Corporation and is a director of several private companies including Leerink Swann, a Boston based investment bank specializing in healthcare companies. Mr. Fleming is a Trustee of the Museum of Science in Boston and a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Business. |
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| Johannes P. Burlin |
| President & CEO, Advanced Bioscience Laboratories, Inc. |
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Johannes P. Burlin is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc. a position he has held since 2003. Mr. Burlin is a member of the board of directors for ABL, Shantha Biotechnics, Ltd. located in Hyderabad, India and bioMérieux, Inc. located in Durham, NC. Mr. Burlin holds a BA from Hamilton College in Economics and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law School.
From 2000 until 2003 Mr. Burlin served as Vice President of Business Development for the Mérieux Group located in Lyon France. From 1995 to 2000 Mr. Burlin served as the General Counsel of bioMérieux, Inc. the US subsidiary of bioMérieux, where he was also responsible for licensing and intellectual property. Prior to joining bioMérieux in 1995 Mr. Burlin practiced corporate law with the law firm of Bryan Cave. |
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| Fred Wilson |
| Managing Director, Union Square Ventures |
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Fred Wilson began his career in venture capital in 1987. He has focused exclusively on information technology investments for the past 17 years. From 1987 to 1996, Fred was first an Associate and then a General Partner at Euclid Partners, a New York based, early stage, venture capital firm founded in 1970. At Euclid Partners, Fred was responsible for a number of investments, including Freeloader, Multex, PowerCenter Systems and UCA&L. In 1996, Fred co-founded Flatiron Partners. While at Flatiron, Fred was responsible for 14 investments including, ITXC, Patagon, Starmedia, TheStreet.com and Yoyodyne. Fred currently serves on the boards of Alacra, Comscore, iBiquity, Return Path, Instant Information and Tacoda Systems. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three kids and lives in New York City. |
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| Don Dodge |
| Director, Business Devpt, Emerging Business Team, Microsoft Corp. |
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Don Dodge is a veteran of five start-ups including Forte Software, AltaVista, Napster, Bowstreet, and Groove Networks. Don is currently Director of Business Development for Microsoft's Emerging Business Team. The goal is to help VC's and start-ups be successful with Microsoft, and together, provide great products for our customers. He writes a daily blog, Don Dodge on the Next Big Thing. Don has been in the software business for more than 20 years. He started his software career with Digital Equipment, aka DEC, in the database group. He worked with 5 software start-ups over the next 12 years. Forte Software was the first multiplatform object oriented development environment. AltaVista was the first search engine on the web. Napster was the first P2P file sharing network. Bowstreet was the first web services development environment. Groove Networks was the first secure P2P collaboration platform. Now he is at Microsoft... “the biggest start-up in the world”... working with VC's and start-ups in the greater Boston area.
Don, a native New-Englander, holds an MBA from New Hampshire College and a BS in accounting from the University of Southern Maine. |
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| Vikram Saksena |
| Chief Technology Officer, Sonus Networks Inc. |
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As chief technology officer, Vikram Saksena is responsible for Sonus' advanced technology direction, guiding the future development of Sonus' wireless solutions, and increasing Sonus' technical focus on external audiences and government agencies. Vikram has over twenty years of senior management experience in the telecom and cable market. Before Sonus, he spent sixteen years at AT&T building their data network services, software and network infrastructure for Frame Relay, ATM, and IP. He became an AT&T fellow and chief technologist of the Data Networking Business Unit, responsible for service and technology innovations around IP quality of service, Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS), and IP-voice. Previously he served as chief technology officer and vice president of engineering of two start-up companies, MaxComm Technologies and Narad Networks, focusing on the development of next generation technologies for the DSL and cable markets. Vikram has published over one hundred papers and has been awarded over fifteen patents. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a senior member of the IEEE. |
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| George Hill |
| Vice President, Investment Banking, Leerink Swann |
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George Hill joined the investment banking team at Leerink Swann in December 2007. He initially joined Leerink Swann in April 2005 as a Vice President, Senior Analyst covering healthcare Technology and Distribution. Prior to joining Leerink Swann, he was a member of the team at Thomas Weisel covering Healthcare IT and Pharmaceutical Service Companies. Prior to Thomas Weisel, spent two years as a Research Associate at Citigroup Asset Management. |
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| Prof. Ravi Sarathy |
| Professor, Strategy and International Business, Northeastern University |
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Ravi Sarathy, Professor, Strategy & International Business, teaches at Northeastern University in the College of Business Administration’s MBA and undergraduate programs; he is a graduate of IIM Ahmedabad, with a M.S., Northwestern University, and a Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan. He has taught executive education programs for companies such as EMC, Mathworks, BAE Systems, LG Electronics (S. Korea), Masa Shipyards (Finland), and others. His current research focuses on Strategic Evolution in the Indian Pharmaceutical industry. He is the coauthor of International Marketing (9th edition, North Coast Publishers, 2006), and has published in journals such as California Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Long Range Planning, Business Horizons, International Trade Journal, International Executive, Transportation Journal, and the International Marketing Review. He was a Fulbright scholar, as the Fulbright-Flad Chair in Strategic Management at the Technical University of Lisbon. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, at HEC, Jouy-en-Josas, Paris, France, at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, at the Australian Graduate School of Management- AGSM, in Sydney, and other institutions. |
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| Rahoul Roy |
| Head of India Practice, Brown Rudnick |
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Rahoul Roy is a member of Brown Rudnick’s Corporate Department, and is the Chair of the India Practice Group. He divides his time between the firm’s New York and Boston offices.
Mr. Roy concentrates his practice on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, venture capital and licensing and strategic relationships. He counsels publicly and privately held Indian and US corporations in a variety of industries including businesses in the information technology, communications, energy and other emerging growth sectors. In the information technology sector (hardware, software and services), Mr. Roy is particularly active in innovative, business-critical deals and strategic alliances. He represents both users and providers in complex transactions involving the licensing, development and procurement of technology, the licensing and distribution of content, and domestic and international outsourcing arrangements.
Mr. Roy also has significant experience practicing law in India, as a former partner at a leading Indian law firm, where he established and led their Technology and Outsourcing Practice Group.
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| Malcolm Frank |
| Chief Strategy officer, Cognizant Technologies |
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Malcolm Frank has two decades of experience in the information technology industry. As the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Malcolm’s focus centers around Cognizant’s brand, driving business through the vertical/horizontal structure and overseeing Cognizant’s corporate strategy.
Prior to joining Cognizant, Malcolm was co-founder, President and CEO of CXO systems, a leading independent software vendor providing dashboard solutions for senior managers. In addition, he was the founder, president, CEO and Chairman of Nervewire Inc., a leading management consulting and systems integration firm. Prior to founding Nervewire, Malcolm was a co-founder, executive officer, and SVP at Cambridge Technology Partners, where he ran Worldwide Marketing, Business Development, and several business units.
Malcolm is a recognized industry leader, often delivering speeches on key issues of IT management. He has been profiled by Forbes magazine and ABC’s 20/20 and quoted in such publications as ComputerWorld, InformationWeek and Business 2.0. He is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study on Leadership and Management, and was named “One of the most influential people in finance” in 2005 by Risk Management Magazine.
Malcolm is a graduate of Yale University and lives in the Boston suburbs with his family. |
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| David Cancel |
| Co-Founder and CTO, Lookery |
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David is the co-founder and CTO of Lookery, a marketing services company. He oversees Lookery’s overall technology and product strategy. Prior to co-founding Lookery, David was the co-founder & CTO of Compete, Inc., now part of Taylor Nelson Sofres [NYSE:TNS]. Before Compete, David served as Vice President of Technology and CTO of BuyerZone.com, now part of Reed Elsevier [NYSE:RUK]. In addition, David was a founding member of the Advance Product Development group at Lycos.com and Chief Software Architect and a founding member of Bolt.com |
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| Walt Doyle |
| CEO, uLocate |
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Walt’s passion for emerging technology has kept him on the leading edge of consumer media and technology for over 15 years. Prior to joining uLocate in 2005, Walt was a GM of MapQuest (TWX). His career began in Hong Kong with Dow Jones (DJ), then spanned executive level appointments with GameSpot (CNET), Net2Phone (IDT), and DialPad (YHOO). Walt’s ability to identify emergine technology trends, create corporate strategy, and build winning teams puts him squarely at the helm of uLocate. Walt left San Francisco for his native home of Boston in 2005 where he and his family are outdoor enthusiasts who enjoy fishing, biking, hockey, and travel. He is a graduate of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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| Mark Lowenstein |
| Managing Director, Mobile Ecosystem |
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Mark Lowenstein is a leading wireless industry executive, advisor, and commentator. Most recently, Lowenstein was an executive at Verizon Wireless, where as Vice President of Strategy he led the company’s efforts in product and business planning, market segmentation, national pricing, and customer intelligence for both consumer and enterprise markets.
Prior to his role at Verizon Wireless, Lowenstein was Managing Director of consulting firm, Mobile Ecosystem, where he advised companies and C-level executives across the landscape of wireless communications on market, product, and industry strategy. Prior to founding Mobile Ecosystem, Lowenstein spent ten years at the Yankee Group, where he founded and led the company’s wireless practices on a global basis. He also managed Yankee Group’s overall research activities in Canada, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. Lowenstein also spent a year as VP, Strategy at Informio, a wireless software and applications firm that raised $40 million from leading VCs.
During the course of his fifteen-year career as an industry consultant, Lowenstein has advised nearly all of the major players across the mobile value chain, as well as top advertising agencies, media/entertainment firms, and industry associations. Lowenstein has also had advisory roles with several leading venture capital and private equity firms. He has been on the advisory boards of Telephia, SeaPoint Ventures, Visage Mobile, East Peak Advisors, and Froghop. In 2006, Lowenstein was selected by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to be part of an executive team to determine wireless strategy for the City of Boston. Lowenstein also founded the Boston Wireless Braintrust, a group of twenty CEOs and wireless industry thought leaders who meet quarterly, on a proprietary basis, to discuss key industry issues, opportunities and challenges.
As one of the wireless industry’s thought leaders, Lowenstein is a sought-after speaker, delivering keynote addresses at major industry and private corporate events. He has also published extensively. His Lens on Wireless newsletter is read by more than 12,000 industry executives, and he published a monthly opinion column in Wireless Week for five years.
Lowenstein has appeared as an expert witness on the wireless industry in several proceedings, and has been engaged in several prominent cases with the FCC. Lowenstein has also been an adjunct faculty member at Tufts University, where he taught a course on the “Business of Wireless Communications”.
Lowenstein received a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he focused on international technology policy.
Lowenstein currently resides in the Boston area with his wife and two children. |
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| Manish Goyal |
| Film Producer |
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Manish Goyal is Producer of the independent feature film KISSING COUSINS, a “relatively” romantic comedy about a hard-hearted bachelor who works as a relationship terminator (he dumps people for a living). Manish is also Writer-Producer of the short-film comedy CALL CENTER, a web phenomenon which achieved 4 million viewers worldwide; and he is Producer of HOOKED, a short-film comedy featuring an all-star cast including Zach Braff, Rebecca Romijn, Fred Savage, Jeff Garlin and David Alan Grier.
Manish is also an MIT graduate who worked in enterprise software with a strong record in sales and business development. Prior to his career in Hollywood, Manish was founder and VP of Isovia, a Boston-based mobile software company that was acquired by JP Mobile (now part of Motorola). Manish holds Bachelors & Masters degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
See the trailer for KISSING COUSINS: www.kissingcousinsmovie.com
Enjoy CALL CENTER: www.callcentermovie.com |
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| Uday Kumar |
| Head of US Operations, AdLabs |
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Head of Adlabs Films for North America with overall responsibility of all objectives & initiatives in Distribution, Exhibition and Post Production business of the Reliance ADA Group.
Recent accomplishments of the US operations have been the establishing of a 200+ screen theatrical chain across USA & acquisition of a Film restoration company in Burbank, California.
An Economics Graduate with over 25 years of experience in diverse Industries and markets with over a decade in the Entertainment business.
Experience portfolio includes Regional Head of” Dunlop” tires, Profit Center Head for a Start-up Liquor Brand in India, Country Head for “Saregama” India’s largest music label based in US, Vice President-Operations for a Start-up based in California engaged in DVD Rental, Consultant with Reliance New Initiatives Group for Content Acquisition & Vice President- New Projects with “Moser Baer” to initiate the low priced DVD & enable the Home Entertainment business in India. |
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| Scott Kirsner |
| Columnist, Boston Globe |
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Scott Kirsner has been writing about innovation for more than a decade. His “Innovation Economy” column appears in the Globe every Sunday, and he also maintains a companion blog at http://www.innoeco.com. Scott’s writing has also appeared in BusinessWeek, Variety, Wired, Fast Company, Newsweek, CIO, Salon.com, the San Jose Mercury News and the New York Times.
Scott is the author of the book The Future of Web Video and the editor of The Convergence Guide: Life Sciences in New England. He was a contributing essayist to The Good City: Writers Explore 21st Century Boston. He serves as the program chair for three regional events on innovation: the Nantucket Conference on Entrepreneurship & Innovation (held each May); Convergence: The Life Sciences Leaders Forum (held each June); and Future Forward (held each fall).
Scott was part of the founding team of Boston.com from 1995 to 1997, as its lead content developer, working with software developers and designers. Prior to that he was the editorial director of Lochridge & Company, a management consulting firm. He is a graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication. |
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| Srini Vasan |
| Founder and CEO, Animatix Studios |
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Srini Vasan is the Founder and CEO of Animatix Studios based in Massachusetts with operations in India. Srini has been a part of the media industry for over 15 years. As an early engineer at Avid Technology (NASDAQ:AVID) he helped develop the core media engine at the heart of the MediaComposer. Srini was always fascinated by theatre, acting in, producing and directing plays, that it is fair to say that he spent more time on stage than in classes at IIT, Madras!
Four years ago he set out to create a transnational animation studio to produce "clean family entertainment" for a worldwide audience. Leveraging the power of the internet, Animatix Studios empowers artists from around the world to collaborate seamlessly to produce hollywood quality animation at a fraction of the cost. The key benefit is the cross-pollination of ideas that produces new ways to tell compelling stories. Animatix Studios has produced several award winning short films and is currently working on a full-length feature film.
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| Dan Olschwang |
| Columnist, Boston Globe |
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Dan Olschwang is JumpTap’s President and CEO. Prior to JumpTap, Mr. Olschwang was General M anager of the Comverse Fun division. Under Mr. Olschwang's leadership, Comverse became the leader in the global ringback market, reaching over 200 million end-users across mobile operators worldwide. Prior to Comverse, Mr. Olschwang served as the Head of Products and Services for Orange in Israel. Under his leadership Orange launched many pioneering products and was ranked by industry analysts as one of the top five most innovative global mobile operators. Prior to Orange, Mr. Olschwang was a management consultant developing market and technical strategies for Israeli telecommunication firms. |
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| Mish Michaels |
| WBZ-TV Meteorologist |
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Mish Michaels is an Emmy Award winning broadcast meteorologist and environmental reporter. She joined the WBZ-TV Weather Team in September 2001. Since then, her weather coverage has taken viewers on a tornado chase in Oklahoma, on a flight into Hurricane Isabel and to the top of Mount Washington in mid-winter. Besides her field coverage of storms, Mish is the only reporter in Boston dedicated to covering stories related to weather and climate change.
Before joining the WBZ-TV Weather Team, Michaels worked for The Weather Channel (TWC) as co-host of Atmospheres, a prime-time weather magazine show. Prior to that, she worked for WHDH (NBC) in Boston from 1992-2000. During that time, she was twice named "Boston's Best Meteorologist" by the Improper Bostonian. Before joining WHDH, she worked as weekend meteorologist/environmental reporter for WMUR-TV 9 in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Mish is a 2006 recipient of a Metcalf Fellowship presented by The Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting. She was also awarded a science journalism fellowship to study at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod in September of 2004. The fellowship allowed her to investigate various weather related topics including climate change and ocean/atmospheric coupling. Mish is Editor-in-Chief of the WBZ-TV Weather Almanac, a yearly publication highlighting New England weather. She has also worked on weather related museum projects including an exhibit called Weatherwise now open at the Museum of Science, Boston and another permanent exhibit at the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium in Concord, NH.
Mish has been affiliated with the Meteorology Department at UMASS Lowell for over a decade, where she has taught a course called "Meteorological Communications" in the past to students in the major. Mish has also worked on numerous educational projects related to meteorology with various organizations including the Harvard Smithsonian Institute, and continues to support the WINS program (Women in the Natural Sciences), run by the Blue Hill Weather Observatory in Milton. The program seeks to inspire adolescent girls to pursue careers in math, science and technology through thoughtful study of the atmosphere.
Born in Calcutta, India with the given name Anuradha meaning "one who does good for others," Mish supports numerous charitable organizations. Currently, she is involved with the Big Sister Association of Boston and volunteered her time as a Big Sister for almost a decade. She is also a Member of the Corporation at the Germaine Lawrence School for adolescent girls in crisis, and in the past, headed a yearly fundraiser for The Pine Street Inn to collect socks and mittens to support services during the colder months of the year.
Michaels has been profiled in Boston magazine, The Boston Globe, Worth, Platinum, Parade, The Improper Bostonian, India Today, India Economic Times and Cosmopolitan. In the past, she was named one of the "Top Ten Young Leaders" by the Boston Jaycees, "Big Sister of the Year" by the Big Sister Association, and "Woman of the Year" by Germaine Lawrence.
Mish is an avid equestrian and enjoys watercolor painting, spending time with family and friends, and travel. She lives with her husband in Cambridge along with their daughter Nalina.
Mish has a Master's degree in Technology in Education from Harvard University. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology from Cornell University in New York. Mish was named "Young Alumni of the Year" by her college at Cornell University in 2004. Mish was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from Regis College in May 2005. Mish received the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Broadcast Seal of Approval in 1997.
Boston's WBZ-TV is part of CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corporation.
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| Ankur Daga |
| Founder and CEO of Angara.com |
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Angara.com is well-funded competitor of BlueNile. The difference is that Angara has all of its operations out of India except for sales. Angara is one of the first luxury companies to leverage India's operational strength. They sell in India, US and Japan.
Growing up in a family that sells fine diamonds and gemstones throughout the world, Ankur has always been the "friend in the jewelry industry." After helping numerous people navigate the diamond industry to purchase beautiful engagement rings, he became frustrated with the lack of simple and informative venues for men to shop for fine jewelry. With his many years of experience and a strong business background, Ankur founded Angara and embarked on a mission to revolutionize and refine the process of buying diamonds and luxury jewelry for men and women regardless of their knowledge level.
Prior to Angara, Ankur worked for McKinsey & Company in New York City, a business management consulting firm. He earned an master's degree in business administration from the Harvard Business School, a bachelor's degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and he is also a graduate of the Gemological Institute of America. |
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| Shridev Sharma |
| Founder and Managing Director Kamrup Housing Projects (Pvt.) Ltd |
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Mr. Shridev Sharma is the Founder and Managing Director of the Kamrup Real Estate Group based in New Delhi, which specializes in real estate development in the emerging urban areas within India. His current projects span the breadth of India from Assam to Goa and many other locations in between. In addition, he is an acute observer and an articulate speaker on the investment opportunities in India. |
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